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Thanks to Jolima for a very entertaining match yesterday. Jolima had the upper hand in skills, speed and strength, I had the upper hand in armour and rerolls, the armour advantage didn't help me much but the rerolls certainly did.

It was en elf grudge match, Jolimas elfs vs my high elfs and I had induced an halfling chef and a babe. Jolime won the toss and elected to kick to me, I tried to blitz on the right side, belatedly realizing I was setting my wrestle lineman up for a crowdsurf by jolimas +1 ST frenzy lineman, so I moved a blitzer up for support in what was surely the stupidest moment in the match. Jolima moved two catchers up for support and then pushed both my players out of bounds. It was such an obvious move in hindsight and I really thought I had lost the match there and then, for no other reason than gross ineptitude. First half proceeded with much back and forth but about turn six it was pretty clear that jolima would get the score. He tried a pass that failed in the second to last turn and with no rerolls I thought maybe this could go my way, not so, he loaded the endzone with three players right beside the ball, that tunred out to be a smart move as he failed his pickup but the ball bounced to one of the elves in the endzone, 1-0 to the elfs.

Seond half I kicked off and I think jolima missed the pick up or maybe a throw? Anyway I got to threaten the ball, and it was a weird half. I don't think I missed a dodge in the entire half (with the use of the dodge skill and rerolls) and I dodged a lot to keep myself in the game, being slightly outnumbered the whole half. I even had three or four dodges away from a diving tackler that went just fine. Lots of back and forth in the beginning where Jolima picked up the ball but I usually got a one dice blitz on the carrier, until there was a opening for my men to score. After the 1-1 goal I got a blitz on the kickoff, I made a shit-ton of dodges to get into his backfield and the ball landed in the hands of my blitzer, which got blitzed of course. Much back and forth again and after a turnover by Jolima I got the chance to dodge and pass to a lineman who I had run into the endzone, 1-2 to the high elves.

There were two turns left and I didn't fancy my chances of stopping a twoturner from the elves, I was undermanned (1 bh, two dead linemen and a couple KO's), but I still had nine players to defend with. Jolima beat down my LOS and sent all his elves forward in the middle and on the right side of the pitch. He had no rerolls left and I desperately wanted to beat him for the first time. I knocked most of his elves down and the only one who had a chance on the endzone was a downed catcher, I tried my best to mark him up with four players, but he blitzed himself out and got to the endzone where he received a quick throw, 2-2.

Laneford; I've got my divisions game on Monday but after that the rest of the week is available at the time of writing. I'm doing a few promotional odds and sods this week so mornings won't be available on the off chance you were thinking of taking advantage of my standard flexible daytime schedule.